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Title: Public health assessment for Willow Run Sludge Lagoon, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan, Region 5. Cerclis No. MID981089246

Abstract

The Willow Run Sludge Lagoon site was proposed for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) National Priorities List (NPL) in January 1987, but a 1990 reevaluation of the site indicated that it did not qualify for the NPL. On September 30, 1988, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) prepared a Preliminary Health Assessment for the Fort Motor (Willow Run) Sludge Lagoon Site. ATSDR concluded that the site was of potential public health concern because of the possibility of exposure to hazardous substances via contaminated groundwater, surface soil, surface water, air and biota, with exposure potentially occurring through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. In October 1993, the Michigan Department of Public Health (MDPH)2 prepared a consulation on the potential health hazards from the contamination in and near the creek. The consultation concluded that the contaminant levels in the sediments in the creek and the WRSL pose a public health threat through direct contact, that the individuals who may have been exposed to these sediments cannot be identified, and that there is insufficient data available to evaluate health threats through consumption of fish or contact with other surface materials on the site.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Michigan Dept. of Community Health, Lansing, MI (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
381559
Report Number(s):
PB-96-203112/XAB
TRN: 62752197
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 26 Aug 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; US SUPERFUND; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS

Citation Formats

. Public health assessment for Willow Run Sludge Lagoon, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan, Region 5. Cerclis No. MID981089246. United States: N. p., 1996. Web.
. Public health assessment for Willow Run Sludge Lagoon, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan, Region 5. Cerclis No. MID981089246. United States.
. 1996. "Public health assessment for Willow Run Sludge Lagoon, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan, Region 5. Cerclis No. MID981089246". United States.
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